Slavery Abolition

Will.i.am debuted a new pro-Joe Biden video this week along with Jennifer Hudson that has an uplifting message, but he also was sharply critical of President Donald Trump. In a conversation with The Washington Post Live, the Black Eyed Peas singer took issue with Trump’s claim that he has done…

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Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was intended to raise up black Americans. Instead it benefitted bureaucrats and big unions.President Johnson meets with four leaders of the civil rights movement, discussing the president's war on poverty, and the effect of poverty on the African American population. Credit: Getty ImagesThe question of…

Math, apparently, remains hard. Except, perhaps, calculus of a political sort. On its face, Health Minister Tyler Shandro's claim that firing 11,000 low-paid public sector health-care employees will save about $600 million makes little sense. Others have done the same calculation and come up with similar results, but it is…

Detail of a portrait of John C. Calhoun by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894) (Wikimedia Commons) Calhoun was a Hegelian Jacobin who spent his life trafficking in post-hoc rationalizations for slavery. Conservatives must reject his example. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n my last piece, I alluded to an article by…

Publishedduration22 hours agoimage captionDr Starkey said he had made "a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price"Historian Dr David Starkey has said he is being investigated by police over an interview in which he made controversial comments about slavery.Dr Starkey made the remarks on YouTube to…

The death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sent the already fraught politics of Supreme Court confirmation into crisis. But the panic that followed the news of Ginsburg’s death, given the heightened stakes of the 2020 election, has served one useful purpose: It’s made it clearer than ever…

On Monday, “The Daily Show” took a special look at the holiday honoring Christopher Columbus, and suggested replacing it with one celebrating an Italian-American who is nothing like the man who began the Native American genocide: Dr. Anthony Fauci. Columbus Day, celebrated every Oct. 12 since 1934, was established to…

Anti-colonization demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, pulled down statues of the late Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt ahead of the Columbus Day federal holiday, per the Oregonian.Driving the news: Sunday night's action that also saw Oregon Historical Society's building vandalized was part of a movement that organizers called, "Indigenous Peoples…

A protester stands over a toppled statue of President Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, Oregon. Photo: AFP ‘Put these animals in jail, now’ … ‘This is Biden! Law & Order!’ said Trump in a series of tweets Three arrested as hundreds of protesters gathered in the city of Portland for ‘Indigenous…